Richard Freeman is Professor of Social Science and Public Policy at the University of Edinburgh. He teaches knowledge and practice on undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in policy and politics, as well as theory and method in the Graduate School of Social and Political Science. He is a former Fulbright Scholar and Jean Monnet Fellow, and has held visiting positions at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg, Bremen, the Institut d’Études Politiques (‘Sciences Po’), Paris, the Institut für höhere Studien, Vienna, and Yale University, New Haven.

For a meeting of the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, 19 November 2018... The aim of this presentation is simply to set out a framework for studying 'doing politics', and to discuss ways of using it in teaching as well as other kinds of...

Public lecture, Institut für Politikwissenschaft, University of Vienna, 13 December 2018... What are policy and politics, in practice? When we do politics and make policy, what are we doing? In this lecture, I want to set out a framework for understanding...

Visiting Professor in the Department of Politics, University of Vienna, 2018-2019, teaching courses in Making Policy, Doing Comparison and Doing Politics and Making Policy at Bachelor's and Master's levels respectively... BAK 13: Making policy, doing...

Nice citations, at least, if not ex-citations. Like lots of us, I guess, most of what I've written appears again (if it appears at all) as a name and number, person and date inserted in someone else's argument, to be read as simple ciphers for the complex body of...

Policy makers and commentators refer readily to ‘the European project’, as though Europe itself were a project. But what would it mean to take this term seriously, to develop the account of European governance it seems to suggest? This chapter begins on the ground, in the everyday understanding of the project as an organizational form…

The ‘practice turn’ and its associated ontology, epistemology and methodology are now well established in political research. In this article, we identify and explore a corollary pedagogy. After outlining the principal components of practice theory, we compare case-...

Richard Freeman

School of Social and Political Science
University of Edinburgh
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